Trons Decentralized USD Stablecoin Continues to Slip From Dollar Peg – crypto.news - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
blockchain cryptoTrons Decentralized USD Stablecoin Continues to Slip From Dollar Peg – crypto.news06 / 15 / 2022Balita ng Ethereum ng Bitcoin USDD, the Tron-backed algorithmic stablecoin, is still struggling to regain its dollar peg, which it lost on Monday. Short Sellers Hit Tron Trouble started brewing in the Tron ecosystem on June 13 when the platforms native token, Tron (TRX), lost a significant percentage of its value in overnight trading. Tron‘s founder and CEO, Justin Sun, blamed short-sellers for TRX’s tumbling prices and promised to deploy at least $2 billion from Tron DAO Reserves to “fight them.” In a tweet posted on Monday, Sun promised the Tron community that the short-sellers wouldnt last for even 24 hours as they would be short-squeezed and forced to close their positions. USDD Still Struggling Despite Measures to Shore Up its Value Trons struggles, coupled with the ongoing volatility in the broader crypto market, subsequently led to the USDD stablecoin dipping below its $1 peg to trade at $0.97 per unit. Tron DAO has injected more than 700 million USD Coin (USDC) to help defend the USDD peg. And while the stablecoin has made slight gains, it is still almost two cents below its ideal value. At the time of writing, USDD